[Python-3000] Using *a for packing in lists and other places

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Thomas Wouters wrote:
> >
> > [Guido] asked for 'f(*a, b, c)' to be valid, but it only makes sense
> > to allow, say, 'f(*a, b, *c)' too, and he hasn't said 'no' to that.
>
> And then, of course, people are going to want
> to have multiple ** arguments, too...
>

Of course. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. The grammar changes
are done (and it turns out much simpler without these restrictions), if it
weren't for this horrible cold I would have a patch for it up already.

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